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Fatima Farheen Mirza Ahmed (born April 10, 1991) is an American novelist best known for her novel A Place for Us (2018), [1] which was a New York Times Best Seller. [2] She was also honored by the National Book Award Foundation as a "5 Under 35" Honoree in 2020.
Fatima Farheen Mirza was born in California, US in 1991. Both of her parents are of Indian descent. She graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. [6] She is married to the British actor Riz Ahmed. Fatima Farheen Mirza in March 2019.
Rizwan "Riz" Ahmed (Urdu pronunciation: [ɾɪzˌwɑːn ˈɛɦˌməd̪]; born () 1 December 1982) is an English actor and rapper. He has received several awards , including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award with nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards .
Ahmed's wife is novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, and they met in a New York cafe while he was preparing for his role in Sound of Metal. Riz Ahmed is a married man! The 38-year-old actor tied the ...
Oscar and Emmy winner Riz Ahmed is heading back to television, via a new half-hour comedy series at Amazon’s Prime Video. The untitled project will star Ahmed, who will also produce and write.
The Good Immigrant is a book of 21 essays by BAME writers, described by Sandeep Parmar in The Guardian as "an unflinching dialogue about race and racism in the UK", [1] which aims to "document… what it means to be a person of colour now" [2] in light of what Shukla notes in the book's foreword "the backwards attitude to immigration and refugees [and] the systematic racism that runs through ...
Fatima Farheen Mirza – novelist, A Place for Us; Steve Nguyen – film director, producer; Ruben Quesada – poet; Lindsay Ridgeway – actress, Boy Meets World; Philip Michael Thomas – actor, Miami Vice; Charlyne Yi – actress, comedian, and performance artist
Non-fiction. The Karma of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad; Uncle Swami by Vijay Prashad; Everybody was Kung-Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad; In My Own Country by Dr. Abraham Verghese; Olive Witch by Aheer Hoque